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 From: sharx35@hotmail.com 
  
 "penny"  wrote in message 
 news:8qjhs1th6d2b9htvgev5l5vi7edlbet7t6@4ax.com... 
 > On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:58:05 GMT, "pcourterelle"  
 > wrote: 
 > 
 >> 
 >>"penny"  wrote in message 
 >>news:esigs19j7rmvvicda5u7js46kol03m5a8f@4ax.com... 
 >>> On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:16:43 GMT, "pcourterelle"  
 >>> wrote: 
 >>> 
 >>>> 
 >>>>"Ladies Choice"  wrote in message 
 >>>>news:%_Bwf.46787$km.26769@edtnps89... 
 >>>> 
 >>>>>> 
 >>>>>>Just as a lot of booze went South in the 20's you can bet guns will 
 >>>>>>continue 
 >>>>>>to flow North if there is even a small black market for them. 
 >>>>>> 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>> Indeed, but that isn't really an argument against banning guns. 
 >>>> 
 >>>>So the efficacy of the law banning handguns really isn't an issue since 
 >>>>it 
 >>>>won't prevent them from flowing north? By all means, place your finger 
 >>>>in 
 >>>>the dike while its walls crumble around you and call it success. Banning 
 >>>>handguns is a base electroral ploy and nothing more. 
 >>>> 
 >>>>pc 
 >>> 
 >>> One study found that the U.S. murder rate without handguns was 
 >>> roughly equivalent to that of Canada, while the murder rate with 
 >>> handguns was 14.5 times greater. 
 >>> 
 >>> Another study found homicide of a family member was 2.7 times more 
 >>> likely if the home had a firearm than if it did not. The same study 
 >>> found suicide was nearly 5 times more likely in homes with one or more 
 >>> firearms. 
 >>> 
 >> 
 >>You have an uncanny knack for missing the point and misconstruing 
 >>information. The above speaks to your desperate need to eliminate 
 >>individual 
 >>choice and responsibility in Canada. It says nothing but the efficacy of 
 >>policies to ban handguns while the border is porous and the flow of 
 >>handguns 
 >>from the United States is uncontrollable. 
 > 
 > 
 > You're getting carried away, pcourt. Your " desperate need "  isn't 
 > allowing you to absorb my statistics and then rebutting them with 
 > aplomb insted of resorting to ad hominems. 
 > 
 > 
 > Penny 
 > 
  
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